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Canberra Tries To "Embiggen" Itself

Architecture meets Animation when Canberra's ACT Planning Minister, Andrew Barr, recently compared the reverence in ACT planning circles for Canberra's designer, Walter Burley Griffin, to the awe in which "The Simpsons" characters hold their town's founding father, Jebediah Springfield (who turns out to be a fraud and a pirate). And you thought American politics was absurd. Read more here. Image copyright Matt Groening

Architecture meets Animation when Canberra's ACT Planning Minister, Andrew Barr, recently compared the reverence in ACT planning circles for Canberra's designer, Walter Burley Griffin, to the awe in which "The Simpsons" characters hold their town's founding father, Jebediah Springfield (who turns out to be a fraud and a pirate). And you thought American politics was absurd. Read more here.